John Anderson

Name: John "Jack" Anderson

Gender: Male

Age: 17

Grade: Senior

School: John Endecott Memorial Academy

Hobbies and Interests: Track manager, politics (generically), history, classic cars

Appearance: Jack is 5'8" and 130 pounds. His skin is quite white, tending to freckle a bit during the sunnier months, as befits his mostly British family heritage. He has short, shaggy black hair and blue eyes. His face is somewhat sharp, managing to look fairly lean without coming across as overly chiseled. His nose is about average in size, though it looks slightly off from having been broken in a climbing accident a few years ago where his face smacked into a wall. His eyes are hazel, with somewhat thin eyebrows above them.

His build is fairly compact: what he has in terms of muscles comes from retrieving shot put shots and recreational climbing, mostly at a local gym, rather than any formal athletics.

Clothing will vary, but generally skews towards t-shirts and jeans - neither overly sloppy nor overly neat, but generally not terribly fashionable.

On the day of the abduction, he would be wearing a green graphic t-shirt from Patagonia, black pullover hoodie, and a red-and-black North Face jacket along with a pair of blue jeans and six-inch hiking boots.

Biography: Jack's biography is pretty close to what you can expect from a boring upper-middle class teenager in the modern age: his father, John, is a lawyer, and his mother, Diane, is an accountant. Jack goes by his middle name to avoid confusion with his father. Both work in Boston, where Jack was born. He's had an average of one girlfriend per year since the end of middle school, for a total of four. Setting aside one rough breakup at the end of his freshman year, he's had no major, untoward tragedies in his life.

Elementary school was perhaps too easy for him: Jack was rarely challenged in school, and he quickly figured out that being at the top of the class made him a target for bullying. He therefore learned the art of being in roughly the top 20% of his class: good enough that he won't get given too much grief for underperforming at home but not so good as to attract any rivalries either from other kids at the head of the class or artificially imposed upon him by other students. He did have several friends, but was always a little bit uncomfortable around his classmates.

Early hobbies included classic cars, with his father taking him to a few car shows per year as he was growing up; and climbing, which he picked up as he got into middle school courtesy of a convenient climbing gym and a zip line/obstacle course.

Politics was another bonding thing with both of his parents, since with them bringing him to fundraisers he got to meet and get photos with people he saw on TV from a relatively young age. Being this close to New Hampshire, he did his best to get photos with all of the major primary candidates during the last Presidential election cycle. With this in mind, he's surprisingly apolitical - it started out as a cool thing to do with his parents, and kept being a cool thing he could do without too much trouble or expense, and he's able to code-switch between various candidates' campaign languages easily.

Though he's largely been in the background at school, he's picked up a hatful of extracurricular activities: he has been managing for both the track and field and cross-country teams since freshman year, something he was able to do easily without getting the full burden of competing in a team sport while satisfying his father's desire for him to be well-rounded. As a manager, he's also gotten a decent amount of upper-body exercise on a regular basis, both in moving things around and in retrieving shot puts.

He also joined the school's computer club, mainly for after-school access to the computer lab to play some multiplayer games with friends. He's been playing computer games and video games since he was young, doing his best to straddle the line between enjoying them and not being a couch potato. On his own, he's tended towards games in the vein of Cities:Skylines and Europa Universalis, though with the club a number of the more generic multiplayer games have come into the mix for him as well.

He has been intermittently associated with the chess club, playing a number of games but never formally joining as such in an attempt to avoid being pegged as a nerd. Chess isn't a major interest of his, but in the time between the end of classes and the start of track practice he found that the other kids who played were generally fun to talk with.

In general, he has sought to avoid fights and direct non-social confrontations. This could mark him out as a coward, though in some respects he might simply have been lucky in terms of avoiding the attention of bullies as well, limiting occasions to break either way. Socially he's tried to be a bit more assertive, though also trying to avoid getting drawn into feuds. He'd prefer to be a peacemaker, but his efforts to achieve this end simply result in him appearing indecisive. Such a situation was behind his one bad breakup as he refused to get drawn into a fight between his girlfriend and another friend: He was able to salvage the other friendship, but not his relationship with her.

Several teachers have complained that he has never seemed to exert himself in class, but Jack's academic performance has always been at least above-average. In his lower-grade years, he generally sought to avoid over-performing lest he get picked on, though he's put more effort in as high school has gone on because of the need to do well to get into college.

In line with his growing interest in classic cars, Jack expressed interest in having a classic car of his own as a first car instead of something newer. His father helped him fix up an old Lincoln Continental, which ended up being Jack's first car as a compromise between buying the car outright and John making Jack work to buy his first car, with the added positive side-effect of hopefully helping Jack to save on maintenance costs.

Jack is hoping to attend the University of Rhode Island after graduation. This isn't seen as a terribly ambitious pick for him, and his parents have grumbled about his choice being out-of-state for financial reasons, but from his point of view it's both away from home and yet easy to get back home if he wants to head home over a longer weekend or a break.

Advantages: Jack doesn't have many enemies to speak of. He has decent stamina from his rock climbing hobby and shouldn't tire out as easily as other nonathletic kids. He also has some mechanical knowledge due to his time spent repairing cars. Finally, he's good at trying to talk his way out of a tight situation.

Disadvantages: While he's reasonably able to climb, he's not so great in the endurance area and if he has to run for a long period of time he's probably not going to win that sort of a competition. The stamina necessary for climbing as well as the muscle groups that he's managed to build up along the way aren't quite the same. Alongside his lack of enemies, he also doesn't have a lot of friends. His tendency to avoid getting drawn into feuds with other students has the potential to give him trouble in forging strong alliances, as he may be seen as an unreliable partner.

Designated Number: Student No. 126

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Designated Weapon: Pepper spray

Conclusion: British heritage? Oh no, we'll have to even teach him what pepper is before we get to pepper spray. - Cecily Lacoste

'The above biography is as written by Anderson. No edits or alterations to the author's original work have been made.'

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Threads
Below is a list of threads containing John, in chronological order.

V8:
 * Help I'm Alive
 * Come Out, Juanita, Don't Let Me Wait
 * Legion of Doom, Assemble!
 * It's Kind of A Lot
 * A Hot Spring in the Old Town Tonight

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